Well I’ve finally been getting in some new spam and of course coming up to the self assesment time they are at it again – grrr those spammers.

So in this one (see spam email at the bottom) just look at the reference number, guaranteed you won’t have that on any of your official tax documents.

The link also goes to a completely different site from the inland revenue you can tell that because their web address is http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ and they have http://online.hmrc.gov.uk.okio1v.kr/… if you hover over the link you’ll see this address show up.

Basically after the first two slashes in the http:// the very next slash you see signifies the end of the actual domain name. so in this case the .okio1v.kr part is taking you to a completely unrealated domain name to the …online.hmrc.gov.uk… part.

Also in this case they got my name from my email address, which most people have, so that’s why it seems like it’s personalised (generally spam email isn’t personalised), so if you have a strange ID to your email this should look even more suspicious.

HMRC will very rarely email you, most of these issues will be dealt with via a letter in the post or a phone call, so if you get any emails verify it by calling up the revenue just to be sure.